A Social Services Agency to Reclaim Your Nationality
President Minister Louis Bey
PETITION FOR RECOGNITION
AS A MEMBER NATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
1. The Nation of Moorish-Americans was incorporated under the Laws of the District of Columbia, in 1995, as a body politic joined together for the purpose of promoting the mutual safety and advantage by their joint effort of the people throughout North America Moorish decent.(see Exhibit 1&2).
2. Minister Louis Bey, the founder of Moorish-Americans, Inc., has accepted the immediate mission of uniting 40 million plus indigenous people of North America under the Moroccan Banner with the ultimate goal of establishing a universal body under the teachings of Islam. (See Exhibit 3).
3. We have two (2) treaties with America, which we want to pursue:
-Moroccan/American Friendship Treaty of 1408, which
was ratified in 1787 and recognized as protecting the Moors as subjects
of Morocco (again ratified 1987); and
- The Treaty on the Land Purchase called the
Louisiana Purchase which was ratified into law as a treaty by the U.S.
Senate in 1762.
4. A landmark case in which a petition was filed with the House of Representatives in 1779-1790, enabled free Moors to avoid the status of Negro and to be recognized as an alliance of Americans. (see Exhibit 6).
5. We are filling this petition with the United Nations as indigenous people of American that have been deprived of their rightful legacy to the thirteen states of America that by stipulation between Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon, at the conclusion of the Spanish American War, resulted in what is known as "the Louisiana Purchase." (Refer to Exhibit 5).
6. At this point in time, representatives of the Moorish-American community were to be recognized, and be officially included into the family of nations, within the international family wheel, with mutual benefits, for the general good of all. In the opening. remarks of the petition, we seek to open a window to the Muslim World , wherein can be seen as a wake-up call to the Muslim World. Surely, current events of today, make the point explicitly clear that: "The dividing of Islam, into sects, has proven to be Baneful, having no part, in the spirit, and will, in ALLAH."
7. We are mindful of, and welcome, all of the new problems that may arise due to the disrupted education of Moors/others, however, we as Moors do not fall under the Act of 1862 A.D. and the clause of 1800 A.D., Jim Crow, or 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment, as subjects of America.
8. Because of the Treaty of Friendship and Amnesty of 1787, Article 21, that Thomas Jefferson made with the Emperor of Morocco, Moors were to be treated as equals under the United States Constitution. The laws of the United States, in general, and its Treaties, which are made or which shall be made under their authority of the people, have controlling impact upon all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and counselors, and is, and shall be, the Supreme Law of the land; the judges in every state shall be bound thereby; and anything in the Constitution or the laws of any state to the contrary, notwithstanding.
WHEREFORE, in consideration of all the above, the Nation of Moorish-Americans, Inc. pray that an audience is provided us so that we may present our case to this enlightened body.
Respectfully submitted,
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Shaikh Abdullah AL, Harkeem AL, Amin Bey
Minister, /Moorish-Americans, Inc.
Washington, D.C.